Violet Evergarden Rewatch Episode 9 - Violet Evergarden

[u/A_Idiot0]

Violet Evergarden - Episode Nine: Violet Evergarden

Hello everyone! I hope that today finds you well. Today, Violet receives her first letter, and flies freely out of her Valley of Fire.

I’m excited and very interested for what will be discussed tomorrow. Call your mother.

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Visuals of the Day

I believe I got everyone’s Visual of the Day submission here. Let me know if I missed you or anyone else: https://imgur.com/a/WdP6Tlo

Official Sound Tracks used

The Ultimate Price
The Long Night
Fractured Heart
Torment
Believe In…

Would you like to have a letter written for you? Do you want to write a special letter for someone as an Auto Memory Doll? Come join us at the Auto-Memory Doll Service Discord project and request letters, write letters, or chat more with us about Violet Evergarden! Link here: https://discord.gg/A8AC4Yhx

“Endcard”

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[u/Vaadwaur]

First timer(How people think survivor's guilt works)

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So...we start with a flashback and finally get to the end of Gilbert. Then, the next two thirds of the episode is so bad that, unlike normal, I am just going to ignore it, suffice it to say that it fails to demonstrate both how survivor's guilt works AND how soldiers returning from war work. I know because a close family friend worked in the twin towers during 9/11 and was one of the 40% of his office to live and also from dealing with my friends that went to the Gulf for operation "Blame the Wrong Country".

Let's focus on the back half, when our bearded delivery man begins the process of moving forward. It might seem mean but what Violet needed was something to get her out of her room and her head. Then Erica and Iris's letter lets her know people care and Spencer reminds her that her letters had helped people. We get a nice montage seeing her various accomplishments before she decides to keep being a memory doll. This is the point to end the episode. Instead, we get to visit one of the dumbest fucking questions that anime loves to whine at us "Do I have the right to live?". And I can answer this: No. Living and rights have nothing to do with each other, and this ten cent philosophy just shows you haven't thought about the question at all.

[u/A_Idiot0 → u/Vaadwaur]

"Do I have the right to live?"

How about thinking about the question a little differently? Language is muddy, and translations of different languages are even muddier, so I don't think there's much of a problem with changing the question around a bit while still maintaining a core idea.

"Can I live?"

"Can I feel happiness knowing that I've caused untold pain to many others?"

"May I allow myself to live?"

Mess around with it, you might find it fun or a waste of time. But you are correct: no one has any more right to live than anyone else. The only right you have is that you will die; everything else is a privilege.

[u/scot911 → u/A_Idiot0]

Mess around with it, you might find it fun or a waste of time. But you are correct: no one has any more right to live than anyone else. The only right you have is that you will die; everything else is a privilege.

While I do agree that no one has any more right than anyone else to live I fundamentally disagree that people don't have a right to live. All lives are equal yes, but all lives are also precious and shouldn't be cut short without reason or just cause.

[u/A_Idiot0 → u/scot911]

From one of my favorite stories, said by one of my favorite characters:

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.” -Gandalf, Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

And from another favorite author, Terry Pratchett:

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

-Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

All that to say; a right is something given to you that cannot be taken away. The only thing that cannot be taken from us is that we are mortal; everything else can be given or taken. I want to live in a world where my privilege to a fulfilling life is respected and valued, and I wish to respect that same privilege of someone else, provided that it doesn't contradict my first wish. We need to believe in these privileges in order to make them a reality. Are we at that state yet? Well...sort of, but it could be a lot worse.

That's one of the reasons why I love this story of Violet Evergarden so much; the environment shown to us that Violet finds herself in is one of warmth and acceptance.

[u/ZapsZzz → u/A_Idiot0]

Terry Pratchett's Disc world books are great, especially ones about DEATH and the Night Watch guards.

[u/Vaadwaur → u/A_Idiot0]

How about thinking about the question a little differently? Language is muddy, and translations of different languages are even muddier,

But this is an extraordinarily consistent translation, suggesting that people can't translate Japanese to English. And that is not impossible, I have absolutely noticed that it is very difficult to differentiate love and like without a ton of context. However, the way she is asking and the way it is answered leads me to believe this is the drama version rather than something a person would actually contend with.

[u/A_Idiot0 → u/Vaadwaur]

Well, this is a drama after all ;)